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Job overview
The Talent Acquisition Specialist works with the Talent Team to provide recruitment services for assigned non-exempt positions. The role serves as a point of contact for candidates and hiring supervisors, manages multiple requisitions, and supports sourcing, screening, assessments, references, offers, and candidate activity in the Applicant Tracking System. The Specialist also maintains candidate and supervisor relationships and ensures compliance with applicable federal and state laws and regulations.
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Full job description
Rate: $26.09 USD per hour
Description
Schedule :Monday - Friday (40 hrs/wk)8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Department: Human Resources - 151
Primary Purpose :
The Talent Acquisition Specialist works collaboratively with other members of the Talent Team to deliver recruitment services for assigned non-exempt positions. The Specialist represents the organization to prospective candidates and functions as their point of contact. The Specialist provides positive, timely, and effective recruitment services for candidates and hiring supervisors. Builds and maintains key relationships with potential candidates, applicants, and hiring supervisor. Thrives in a fast-paced environment managing multiple non-exempt requisitions.
About ARUP :
ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and an enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
ARUP proudly hires top talent to create a work environment of diversity, professional growth and continuous development. Our workforce is committed to the important service we provide to over one million patients each month. We always strive for excellence and have a strong desire to have involvement with the advances in medicine and the role laboratory services plays within each patient’s life. We never forget that there is a patient behind every specimen we receive.
We are looking for individuals who want to contribute to ARUP's culture of accountability, integrity, service, and excellence. Consider joining our dynamic team.
Essential Functions :
Represents the organization for prospective candidates; a key point of contact for recruitment activities.
Assists hiring supervisors to identify expectations, clarify process and provide regular updates.
Promotes recruiting strategies specific to assigned positions, using designated resources to identify and attract quality candidates. Utilizes employment branding practices, tactical outreach and referral generation, corporate events, job fairs, networking, and pipelining efforts.
Identifies qualified candidates and manages the pre-screening process for high volume non-exempt positions to ensure minimum qualifications are met.
Sources, identifies, recruits and screens potential candidates, administers appropriate assessments, checks references, and communicates offers of employment for non-exempt position openings as assigned.
Manages candidate activity in the Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
Collaborates with internal team members to promote and facilitate hiring needs.
Cultivates and maintains excellent relationships and consistent communication with candidates and hiring supervisors to promote teamwork and credibility.
Recognizes priorities, manages deadlines and exercises professionalism in interactions with internal and external clients.
Maintains established performance criteria with respect to quality, process efficiency, productivity and speed.
Ensures an excellent candidate experience.
Helps drives strong satisfaction ratings with hiring supervisors and managers, applicants, candidates and other leaders in the organization.
Ensures compliance with all federal/state laws and regulations.
Other duties as assigned
Physical and Other Requirements :
Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
Mobility: The person in this position needs to occasionally move between work sites and inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
Communicate: Frequently communicate with others.
PPE: Biohazard laboratory environment that requires use of personal protective equipment in accordance with CDC and OSHA regulations and company policies.
ARUP Policies and Procedures: To conduct self in compliance with all ARUP Policies and Procedures.
Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
Fine Motor Control: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
Vision: Having close, far, and peripheral visual acuity to perform a variety of tasks such as make general observations of depth and distance.
Qualifications
Education
Required
- High School Diploma or Equivalent or better
Preferred
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Associates Degree or better in Human Resources
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Bachelor's Degree or better in Human Resources
Experience
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or a related field OR Associate’s degree with two years of experience in a Recruiting/Talent or HR related position, OR high school diploma or equivalent with four years of experience in Recruiting/Talent or HR related position
Preferred
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Working knowledge of federal and state HR laws
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Familiar with HR technology (HRIS Applications)
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Knowledge of health care or clinical laboratory industry
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Skills in Microsoft Office Suite products, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
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Experience with Applicant Tracking Systems
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,762 open Talent Acquisition jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$26.09/hr
- US median$36–40/hr299 hourly ranges
This rate, $26.09/hr, is 30% below the US median midpoint ($38/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Talent Acquisition hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 29 open Talent Acquisition jobs in Utah and 2,762 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Utah
- Podium6 open
- ARUP Laboratories (this employer)2 open
- Brex2 open
- Experience
- Talent Acquisition postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (2,162 postings).
- Education
- 424 of the 2,762 open Talent Acquisition jobs (15%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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